From the author: "Systems Theory for Pragmatic Schooling combines John Dewey's conception of the nature of nature and philosophy of experience with contemporary systems theory and concepts related to complexity to argueCraig Cunningham, AM'92, PhD'94

From the author: "Systems Theory for Pragmatic Schooling combines John Dewey's conception of the nature of nature and philosophy of experience with contemporary systems theory and concepts related to complexity to argue for reconceptualizing the purposes of schooling to focus on the development of the unique potential for a diverse democracy society."...more

From the author: "Drawing on extensive fieldwork and more that three decades of work on the Shi'i community of Lebanon, this volume offers an authoritative introduction to the history, culture, politics, strategyAugustus Richard Norton, PhD'84Author

From the author: "Drawing on extensive fieldwork and more that three decades of work on the Shi'i community of Lebanon, this volume offers an authoritative introduction to the history, culture, politics, strategy and dilemmas of Hezbollah, the Iran-supported party and military force which plays a dominant role in Lebanon while also confronting Israel and striving to thwart U.S. and western influence in large swaths of the Middle East. This edition, published in 2014, extensively expands the original 2007 edition."...more

From the author: "Maurice Marwood’s mother often urged him to stay close to his Ontario roots and raise his own farm family, but life took him elsewhere. After receiving an agricultural engineering degree in the early 196Maurice Marwood, MBA'76Author

From the author: "Maurice Marwood’s mother often urged him to stay close to his Ontario roots and raise his own farm family, but life took him elsewhere. After receiving an agricultural engineering degree in the early 1960s, Marwood was hired by Caterpillar Tractor Co. He climbed the corporate ladder in several US cities, earning his stripes by donning coveralls and climbing aboard the heavy equipment. Eventually he earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and accepted a customer service position that took his family to Switzerland, Africa, and the Middle East. By the time he was in his mid-thirties, Marwood’s career was in high gear and his travels had already become extensive. And he had only just begun. Reflecting on his rags-to-riches life and career in Professional Nomad, Marwood credits his mother with teaching him independence and self-reliance—values that he adapted into a lifestyle and a world-view, and that continue to inform his management philosophy. The frame for Marwood’s memoir is his unique corporate career, built on a belief in science, reason, people, and traditional values. He cites Woody Allen’s observation that 'eighty percent of success is showing up,' yet Marwood is not one to simply show up. 'I need to be in control, to take action, and to show progress,' he explains. In his participative management style, Marwood is the coach; he trains and empowers his people, while focusing their endeavors squarely on the customer. He can be found lecturing engineers in post-Mao China, visiting logging camps in remotest Borneo, and advancing his ideas to employees in Montreal. Congruent with Marwood’s narrative is an explicit running argument that flows directly from his experiences. He idealizes technology, progress, the profit motive, and business for steadily improving the human condition. An admirer of Ayn Rand, he advocates laissez-faire capitalism and a live-and-let-live foreign policy. Marwood adroitly segues from the tracking of his career to diversions such as long-distance running, climbing expeditions in the Alps and Himalaya, and voyages in the Caribbean and the Intracoastal Waterway of the US. While describing a thrilling experience on a scuba 'shark-feeding dive' with his step-son in the Bahamas, he shares his knowledge of shark behavior and offers information about shark-feeding laws in Florida. Contextual information is delivered in an engaging style, and opinions are qualified and supported with personal experience and other evidence. Marwood’s passions reveal a man of boundless energy with an undying curiosity and a can-do attitude. Whether at the helm of his yacht or the helm of a corporation in need of a turnaround, Marwood’s voice and approach are remarkably consistent. Even his last few chapters, concerned with ethics, religion, and politics, are alive with stories and persuasive logic. Marwood is an authentic American success story. In 2005, at sixty-four years of age and while serving as managing director of Capital Machinery Limited in Taiwan, he climbed Mt. Yushan, the highest peak in Northeast Asia. Having learned that 'success is a journey—not a destination,' Marwood would likely argue that success came in the pursuit, rather than the achievement, of his goals.—Joe Taylor, ForeWord Clarion Review"...more

From the author: "Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, University of Montana historian Kyle G. Volk unearKyle G. Volk, AM'01, PhD'08Author

From the author: "Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, University of Montana historian Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies spurred by the explosion of grassroots moral reform in the early nineteenth century, he shows how a motley but powerful array of self-understood minorities reshaped American democracy as they battled laws regulating Sabbath observance, alcohol, and interracial contact. Proponents justified these measures with the "democratic" axiom of majority rule. In response, immigrants, black northerners, abolitionists, liquor dealers, Catholics, Jews, Seventh-day Baptists, and others articulated a different vision of democracy requiring the protection of minority rights. These moral minorities prompted a generation of Americans to reassess whether "majority rule" was truly the essence of democracy, and they ensured that majority tyranny would no longer be just the fear of elites and slaveholders. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth-century, minority rights became the concern of a wide range of Americans attempting to live in an increasingly diverse nation.

"Volk reveals that driving this vast ideological reckoning was the emergence of America's tradition of popular minority-rights politics. To challenge hostile laws and policies, moral minorities worked outside of political parties and at the grassroots. They mobilized elite and ordinary people to form networks of dissent and some of America's first associations dedicated to the protection of minority rights. They lobbied officials and used constitutions and the common law to initiate "test cases" before local and appellate courts. Indeed, the moral minorities of the mid-nineteenth century pioneered fundamental methods of political participation and legal advocacy that subsequent generations of civil-rights and civil-liberties activists would adopt and that are widely used today."...more

From the author: "In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her new husband, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville. For the next eight years, ElizabethJennifer Brown, PhD'76Author

From the author: "In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her new husband, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville. For the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband’s work at two mission houses, Norway House and then Berens River. Unprepared for the difficult conditions and the “eight months long” winter, and unimpressed with “eating fish twenty-one times a week,” the young wife rose to the challenge. In these remote outposts, she gave birth to four children, acted as a nurse and doctor, and applied both perseverance and determination to learning Cree, while also coping with poverty and short supplies within her community. Accompanying Elizabeth’s memoir, and offering a counterpoint to it, are the reminiscences of her eldest son, Eddie.” Born at Norway House in 1869 and nursed by a Cree woman from infancy, Eddie was immersed in local Cree and Ojibwe life, culture, and language, in many ways exemplifying the process of reverse acculturation often in evidence among the children of missionaries. Like those of his mother, Eddie’s memories capture the sensory and emotional texture of mission life, providing a portrait that is startling in its immediacy. Skillfully woven together and meticulously annotated by Jennifer Brown, these two remarkable recollections of mission life are an invaluable addition to the fields of religious, missionary, and Aboriginal history. In their power to resurrect experience, they are also a fascination to read."...more

From the author: "A guide for patients suffering from various functional gastrointestinal disorders especially irritable bowel syndrome that discusses features of these disorders and approaches to their treatment by a gastrooAlvin Newman, SB'58Author

From the author: "A guide for patients suffering from various functional gastrointestinal disorders especially irritable bowel syndrome that discusses features of these disorders and approaches to their treatment by a gastrooenterologist who has been trating patisents for over four decades."...more